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Justice Department works to protect elders from scammers
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Over the past year, The Justice Department ramped up efforts to protect older adults from fraud and return money to fraud victims, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Colorado. Department investigators and law enforcement tracked 260 cases involving 600 defendants. The Department notified more than 500,000 eligible victims of…
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Federal judge considers ‘misleading’ prison explanation of Boston bomber’s restrictions
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A federal judge on Wednesday questioned a Federal Bureau of Prisons official about the accuracy of the bureau’s response to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man sentenced to death for killing four people in April 2013 in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing, and who is now challenging his prison conditions. Tsarnaev, who is incarcerated at the United States…
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Colorado’s U.S. attorney, top public defender discuss priorities, including fentanyl, in joint appearance
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The top federal prosecutor and public defender in Colorado appeared together in downtown Denver on Thursday for a discussion that touched on criminal justice priorities like the fentanyl crisis, as well as the Biden administration’s judicial nominees and their efforts to diversity their offices. Although U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan and Federal Public Defender Virginia Grady are within…
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Jurors hear from victim of alleged corporate conspiracy in ongoing DaVita trial
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After a week of calling corporate executives to testify and airing communications between the enablers of an alleged white-collar conspiracy, the government’s attorneys on Tuesday closed their case by letting the jury hear from one victim of the scheme. Elliot Holder, a self-described mid-level employee of kidney care company DaVita, Inc., recounted his experience interviewing…
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DaVita criminal trial ends first week with executive hiring under microscope
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The criminal trial of kidney care company DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, ended its first week with a detailed look at the flow of DaVita employees to Radiology Partners, another healthcare company the government alleges was involved in a conspiracy to stifle competition in the labor market. Jurors heard from Rich Whitney,…
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Defense gets chance to clarify gentlemen’s agreements in DaVita criminal trial
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Defense lawyers sought to change jurors’ perception of the corporate pacts at the heart of the federal criminal trial of DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, by clarifying the intent directly with one of the men responsible for the agreements. Andrew Hayek, the former chief executive officer of Surgical Care Affiliates, said on…
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‘I’m not proud of this’: Jurors in DaVita hear from witnesses who carried out allegedly illegal agreements
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Jurors on Tuesday learned details about the alleged conspiracy to keep workers locked in their jobs by DaVita, Inc. and its former leader Kent Thiry, hearing directly from two people who enforced the terms of the agreements or understood the motivations behind them. A key government witness, Bridget “Bridie” Fanning, recalled how uncomfortable she felt…
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White-collar DaVita trial kicks off with competing interpretations of corporate agreements
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Twelve jurors heard competing interpretations on Monday of the corporate agreements that are at the heart of a novel criminal trial based on an 1890 federal antitrust law. To the government, the agreements between kidney dialysis company DaVita, Inc. and three of its competitors represented an illegal scheme to restrict the movement of employees between…
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Parties argue over mundane, salacious issues as DaVita trial looms
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With weeks to go until the high-profile white collar trial, attorneys for the United States and for Fortune 500 company DaVita, Inc. clashed in a downtown Denver courtroom, arguing over the admissibility of expert testimony, the multimillion-dollar compensation for DaVita’s CEO-turned-defendant, and the government’s withholding of information. The parties on Thursday even disputed whether the…
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‘Keep Kent Thiry happy’: Prosecutors air statements of alleged DaVita conspiracy in court
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With a jury trial scheduled to take place in just over a month, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed in federal court on Thursday a catalogue of statements from co-conspirators in the alleged scheme by Denver-based DaVita, Inc. and its ex-leader, Kent Thiry, to unlawfully restrict the movement of employees between companies. Thiry and DaVita…
